By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
Both the new Scottish eHealth strategy and a range of service transformation projects and initiatives in Scotland are being driven by the need for health boards to do more with less. More people are now living with long-term conditions than ever before - around two million people in Scotland, or 40% of the population - and the number is rising.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has selected Harris Healthcare's Clinical Integration Platform to help fulfill its vision of providing a paperless and mobile clinical environment as part of a wider modernisation programme. The trust, which has signed a pilot agreement for 500 licences, will use the clinical portal to enable the organisation to bring together patient information from numerous different clinical systems that currently work in isolation.

HIMSS Europe and AVISA (the Valencia Association of Health Informatics) have signed a collaboration agreement with which HIMSS reaffirms its strong commitment to Spain, being the leading country in Europe in terms of its adoption and use of electronic medical records.

At a COCIR' event in Brussels yesterday on 'Digital Hospitals: Healthcare transformation from electronic patient records to fully connected hospitals', speakers from the European Commission, OECD, hospitals and industry came together to discuss how to maximise the use of health ICT to drive efficiency in hospitals while maintaining a highest level of quality and safety.

TotalMobile Ltd has chosen HC2013 to announce that social enterprise and NHS provider Bristol Community Health will begin a pilot this spring of the TotalMobile™ App Platform, a mobile workflow management solution which allows healthcare professionals to spend less time on administration and travel, and more with patients.

Mobile solution provider TotalMobile Ltd will announce the launch of their TotalMobile App Platform - a workflow management solution into the UK healthcare market at HC2013 (16th - 17th April, ICC Birmingham) by presenting the benefits of adopting a mobile working strategy. Delegates will be able to experience live demonstrations on stand 18 and see how it supports healthcare professionals working on mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets to update patient information and record medical tasks whilst on location.

By Kurt Long, CEO of FairWarning
The NHS is currently undergoing a transformation, which once completed will give place to a new, leaner and more efficient healthcare landscape. With limited financial resources and having to meet the growing needs of an ageing population, many NHS trusts are struggling, some have gone into administration, such as South London Healthcare NHS Trust, with more to follow suit.